It is if you believe Tony Heller, which I humbly suggest is not a particularly wise course of action at the best of times. In his umpteenth article on Northabout’s Great Adventure over the last four days he dares to take your humble scribe’s name in vain as he loudly proclaims:

“Jim Hunt Egging The Ship Of Fools On To Disaster”

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Anthony Watts has written an Arctic sea ice article of his own for a change, quoting the GWPF as a source. However, our elucidatory comment remains invisible as a helpful WUWT moderator defines the word "mendacious" for us:

Our title for today does of course refer to the inconvenient hiatus caused by the Gremlins currently stealing my comments from under the noses of Anthony Watts’ eagle eyed team of moderators before they can approve them as suitable for public view.

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Surveys, surveys, surveys. They are everywhere. I do most of my financial transactions online, and am asked repeatedly to take part in another mindless survey. I never participate because I think it's a waste of time. What I've seen Jim and so have you and many others is that these corporations suffer from groupthink and no matter what the response is, it passes through their own reality "filter".

Although I applaud your efforts I have to ask, is it really worth it? Is there a genuine way of getting our point across and creating real change? I hope the answer is yes, but I remain doubtful.

Again and again I was accused of not accepting there’s a long term warming trend, and furthermore if there is such a trend, and of course there is such a trend, that it’s not largely or to a great extent due to greenhouse gas emissions from human beings.

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Intriguingly Anthony Watts has a poster at AGU this year. Rather than bleating about RSS temperature this time around he reveals an increase in total precipitable water. According to the RSS website "This increase can be formally attributed to human-induced climate change":

By some strange quirk of fate "Snow White's" latest research into "alternative facts" about the Arctic propagated by the likes of "Steve Goddard" has coincided with the launch of the learned Journal of Alternative Facts!

Yet another quirk of fate bumped me into Australian Senator Malcolm Roberts on Twitter yesterday. The JAF article guidelines insist on peer review by politicians, so we've asked Senator Roberts for his comments on our research. "No answer!" has been his stern reply thus far.

Nothing changes in the Daily Mail's universe. Almost fifty years ago when I was working in the Ice Unit of the Met Office, I saw an article in my landlady's Daily Mail trumpeting that Met Office scientists were predicting that we were entering a new 'Little Ice Age' with the Thames likely to freeze over and East Greenland ice possibly extending to Scotland. As I read the nonsense that this article contained, I got more and more angry, especially as I knew the scientists involved and regarded the comments attributed to them as being utterly ridiculous.

When I got to work that morning, I refrained from phoning them to say what I thought about what they'd said until I'd calmed down a bit more. As it happened, one of them rang me first and asked if I'd seen the rag and to say that not one of the quotes in the article bore any resemblance to what he or his colleague had actually said. As evidence that this sort of thing happens, another acquaintance told me a few years of how he'd asked to record an interview with a newspaper reporter as he'd been badly misquoted on a previous occasion. They agreed but when he saw the article, they'd completely misquoted him again. They agreed to talk with him about his complaint but as the quotes were compared with the tape recording, they said 'well, you said that word then and the next word you said then . . .' To slightly misquote Eric Morecambe, their defence was that they'd 'used all the right words but not necessarily in the right order'.

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Produced Arctic Ice charts for the Met Office Ice Unit from 1965 to early 1973. For the rest of my 42-year career I was a weather observer, forecaster, and computer programmer.

Almost fifty years ago when I was working in the Ice Unit of the Met Office, I saw an article in my landlady's Daily Mail trumpeting that Met Office scientists were predicting that we were entering a new 'Little Ice Age'.

Plus ça change Graham? Are you by any chance currently resident in the Exeter area? If not perhaps I might be able to persuade you to pass this message on to your local M(E)Ps?

The disastrous changes now culminating in the arctic and by extension earth's climate writ large, are causing big name republicans to update their narrative from, no such thing as global warming to:“Mounting evidence of climate change is growing too strong to ignore,” the group writes, but it still hedges by adding, “the extent to which climate change is due to man-made causes can be questioned.”

It's clear that oil interests are setting this stage of faux debate and dissonance, so they can fully pump up their carbon bubble prior to its final implosion. Unfortunately our Holocene climate implodes along with it.

JimYou are braver than I to wade about in that alligator infested cesspool.It is important, as I for one had no idea who was being honest when I first recognized that something was amiss with my local weather. I floundered about for a week or so before coming to the conclusion that Tony and his ilk were nothing but snake oil salesmen.I haven't been back to his site for years now, perhaps ashamed that I had been taken in for even a short time by such obvious, now, BS.The signals that outed Tony were, as I recall, his acceptance of conflicting stories, as long as they reached the conclusion he was pushing. His use of ad-hominem attacks, rather than attacking the data or conclusion, and the uncritical fans that peopled his realm.Someone needs to call him out, and I'm grateful that you picked up the gauntlet!

Watts unbelievably weird theses is... now so strange, its just funny. There is always the risk, some people fall for that crap, but all in all its just a funny comedy site, like being a sarcastic portrait of a model denier. A good comedian couldn't do better.

Jim, I wouldn't even waste your breath with Malcom Roberts. Trump is sane and reasonably minded , in comparison to this twerp. He and his idiot ilk in Pauline Hanson and One Nation are our problem to deal with here in Australia. I all honesty, I think the best way to get rid of these fools, is to not waste your breath on them. They will fade away.

Correlation doesn't equal causation of course, but for some strange reason Australian Senator Malcolm Roberts is censoring my comments on Facebook:

Don't "One Nation" advocate "free speech"?

In a word NO. They are also only interested in the facts that suit their agenda. According to Senator Roberts there is no empirical evidence for climate change. Roberts has spent the last seven or eight years working as the project manager of the Galileo Movement — a climate science denial group launched in 2011.

As Victoria says, since TrumpLand came into being all sorts of climate data are being "disappeared" from US government web sites. There are assorted ongoing efforts to try and archive it before it's too late:

I understand your point of view, but nonetheless I do like to archive the deeds and spread the word about the lunatics increasingly in charge of assorted asylums around the planet. Sometimes other words come boomeranging back:

Who'd have thunk it, but just a few days later Javier@WUWT is misusing MASIE extent data yet again. By way of illustration for the aforementioned reader, how long do you suppose it will take Mod@WUWT to approve the following helpful comment of mine?

A new day has dawned, but my helpful hint to the WUWTers remains invisible. However during my vain search I did stumble across this little gem from Valaker:

We Norwegians have been doing a lot of stuff in the Arctic for several hundred years and any story that the Artic sea ice was the highest in 1979 for the past century is simply laughable. It was a bit higher in the mid seventies. But the big picture is a all over decline with the usual up and downs. I guess Your story is plausible when told in Huntsville Alabama, tell the same story to an old sealhunter in Tromsø, Norway, and You will experience what a Hakapik is.

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